Housing Watch Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: first tamil printed book

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Kalidas (film) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalidas_(film)

    After the success of India's first sound film Alam Ara (1931), its director Ardeshir Irani wanted to venture into South Indian cinema. In the same year, he chose H. M. Reddy, his former assistant, to direct the first South Indian sound film, which would later become the first Tamil-Telugu film Kalidas, based on the life of the Sanskrit poet and playwright Kalidasa.

  3. History of printing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing

    He printed a book about the two lovers of Enea Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II. In 1476 a printing press was set up in England by William Caxton. The Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City in 1539. The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover ...

  4. Tranquebar Mission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquebar_Mission

    In 1711, he was able to convince the University of Halle at Halle to start scholarly study into the Tamil language. In 1715, he translated the Bible into Tamil and helped set up India's first printing press at Tranquebar, with Tamil being the first Indian language to be printed. Ziegenbalg championed the cause of women's education and abolition ...

  5. Tolkāppiyam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkāppiyam

    The phonetic and phonemic sections of the first book show the influence of Vedic Pratisakhyas, states Hartmut Scharfe, but with some differences. For example, unlike the Pratisakhyas and the later Tamil, the first book of Tolkappiyam does not treat /ṭ/ and /ṇ/ as retroflex. [51] Book 2 Sollatikaram

  6. Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prathapa_Mudaliar_Charithram

    Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (English: The Life of Prathapa Mudaliar), ,written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. Penned by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826-1889), it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry.

  7. Book - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

    A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Books are typically composed of many pages, bound together and protected by a cover. [1] Modern bound books were preceded by many other written mediums, such as the codex, the scroll and the tablet.

  8. Phineas R. Hunt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_R._Hunt

    Hunt designed and developed improved Tamil type fonts some of which are still in use today. In 1865, John Murdoch, in his Classified Catalogue of Tamil Printed Books, wrote: "Tamil typography owes its present excellence mainly to Mr. P. R. Hunt, of the American Mission Press. With much labour, he superintended the cutting of the punches of ...

  9. Athichudi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athichudi

    Athichudi Venpa. The Athichudi (Tamil: ஆத்திசூடி, romanized: Āthichūdi) is a collection of single-line quotations written by Avvaiyar and organized in alphabetical order.

  1. Ad

    related to: first tamil printed book